"I Won't Invest If You're Making Life Difficult For Me" - Dangote Tells African Leaders
Nigerian billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote has urged African leaders to take deliberate steps towards facilitating the smooth entry and exit of Africans.
Dangote, who spoke at the 30th Afreximbank Annual Meetings
in Accra, Ghana, on Sunday, encouraged the nations to implement visa-on-arrival
policies to enhance trade and investment opportunities within Africa.
“I think what, maybe, African countries need to do is that, why don’t you
give Africans visas on arrival that will facilitate trade?” he suggested,
sharing a scenario where one has to get a visa to get into “country A” as
an African.
He highlighted the scenario where Africans are required to
obtain visas to enter certain countries, contrasting it with the favorable
treatment given to individuals holding British passports, including Nigerians
with British citizenship.
Recounting a personal experience, the industrialist decried a situation where
“we go with a British guy or maybe a Nigerian holding a British passport (and)
he is allowed in”.
The industrialist emphasized that if obstacles persist in conducting business
and investing within Africa, it discourages potential investors from engaging
in the continent’s economic development.
He added, “We were arguing, debating about my visa
and I am the one with the money. If you are making life difficult for me, there
is no way I will go and invest.”
Dangote’s explained that by adopting visa-on-arrival policies, African
countries can enhance their attractiveness to investors and facilitate the
smooth flow of trade, ultimately fostering economic growth and development
across the continent.
Oga keep your investment to yourself,you are just a true example of the rich get richer and the poor getting poorer,even the refinery you built let us see the price of fuel will be when that refinery start working,dead country
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